Performing Arts Series: Mélisande [électrotrad]
Drawing from a rich heritage of traditional francophone songs, Quebec singer Mélisande unearths rare treasures that she adapts and presents with a feminist perspective and the distinctly modern sound of the band. Mélisande [électrotrad] offers an energetic blend of traditional music, pop and electro with a mix of acoustic and electric instruments, vocal harmonies and programming.
Led by Mélisande and her husband Alexandre ‘Moulin’ de Grosbois-Garand, the group offers a fresh artistic proposal to the folk-world-trad music scene. Its first album Les métamorphoses (La Prûche Libre, 2014), acknowledged by the critics here and abroad, won a Canadian Folk Music Award and an Independent Music Award, as well a being nominated at ADISQ. Since the release of the album, the band performed over 50 concerts in Canada, the United States, France and Australia.
LES MILLÉSIMES
Their new album Les millésimes (Borealis Records, Feb 2017) offers a collection of traditional French-language songs carefully selected during research in various archive centers in Quebec and United States. Like great wines, good songs improve with age, and Mélisande [électrotrad] took great pleasure in cooking up these reinterpretations of great vintage songs. Mélisande and her partner ‘Moulin’ gathered a fantastic team of collaborators to give a new life to these songs and push further the fusion of genres.
Parking: Patron drop-off area: There is a bus stop driveway at the Virginia Street entrance to the Church Fine Arts Building making it easy to drop-off passengers before parking. Parking is free on arts events evenings (after 7 p.m.) in the Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex, which is north of the Church Fine Arts building and south of Lawlor Events Center.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Church Fine Arts, Nightingale Concert Hall
39.5412425545764, -119.8168797791
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College of Liberal Arts, School of the Arts, Performing Arts Series
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$35, adult (older than 17 and younger than 62); $29, seniors, University faculty and Staff; $15 youth/student (ages 3-17, non-University student); $5, University student (Must be purchased in-person at Lawlor Events Center.)
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